With the evolution of technology comes new innovations which give people convenience for their daily needs. With the creation of 5G leads to proficient data that offers more bandwidth speed and less lag time that’s critical for our technologically driven world.
With 5G being a software-driven network, it also has a lot of potential cybersecurity risks that can become a threat if used in the wrong hands. Here we’ll talk about what potential dangers this new cellular network can bring to us.
Network Virtualization
As 5g doesn’t need any physical hardware in order for devices to connect as it only requires standard internet protocols and common operating systems, it makes it easier for cybercriminals to gain access to everyone’s devices and exploit them for their own goals.
The higher risk of cybercrime that comes with 5g is added with how cell sites rely on the dynamic spectrum sharing of this new cellular network.
This works by sharing bandwidth to multiple streams of data and each of those bandwidth has its level of risk involved. Cybersecurity will then have to check all of these bandwidths which will be close to impossible unless they learn to adapt to deal with the problem.
New Distributed Routing
The current networked uses hardware-based, centralized switching. This goes through a hub-and-spoke setup where multiple VPN routers communicate with a central VPN router in order for the data packets to be checked out.
This lets certain sites gain access to your main network. Though it can create a bottleneck when there’s too much data traffic, it can be easier to maintain data traffic control.
With 5g, the network becomes software-centric giving cybersecurity nodes to focus on. This makes it problematic for them to check and enforce security protocols as it does not have any choke point protocol.
Massive Bandwidth Expansion
Using 5G will allow Bandwidth speed to be way faster than 4G. If 4G lets you stream high-quality videos with minimum to no lag time, then imagine what 5G could do. Downloading large files will only take less than a minute with this new cellular network. With how 5G is able to be much quicker than its predecessor, it also poses a new challenge to cybersecurity.
With bandwidth limitations in 4G networks, network security is able to keep track of all potential threats. But as 5G is much faster, this will create huge problems for these network securities to identify the threats and it might be too late when they’ve managed to spot them.
More Cyberthreats Incoming
With more ordinary household equipment getting connected to the internet, imagine what would happen once 5G gets into the scene.
With new devices that are going to come up in the market, it’s going to create a lot of access points for hackers who want to exploit the capabilities it can give out. This might even become a threat to businesses and maybe even cripple them to some extent.
This can be seen as an exaggeration for some people but even the little things that require the internet can be tampered with and even be abused by the hackers. I can be simple things like lightbulbs, thermostats, remote sensors, and even door locks.
Conclusion
As 5G is slowly taking over the world, it’s important to note that there are certain cybersecurity risks that need to be addressed in order to prevent any possible threats that may occur once it’s released.
The government and internet service providers should check out what these possible risks are and create ways to avoid them from happening.
